To the amazement of tourists in London's notorious Trafalgar Square all plans and aspirations for fun and amusement were brought to a shocking halt today. A well known shizophrenic topiarist went berserk and rapidly reduced a newly installed maze to matchsticks.

Witnesses said that at first they thought the mild mannered, green fingered gentleman was just larching about, when he started screaming 'Oh Laurel, oh Laurel' before attacking the hedgerows. Police at the scene deny that he was trying to rescue his wife and no incidentally she isn't called Laurel either..

Boris Johnson was seen ambling away from the scene in a typically bemused and dishevelled manner!